Ran Away Pregnant Came Back Alpha Heiress (Amelia and Damien) novel Chapter 201

Chapter 201

Looking up, I saw the reason why.

Amelia was looking at us, her eyes wide open, her gaze flipping between Eve and me.

“Annette?” I asked, panic rising. Gods, I hoped she hadn’t heard what we were saying.

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“Amelia is sleeping,” said Amelia’s body, but the tone and inflection didn’t seem like hers. I could see then, the way her eyes glowed. We were not talking to Amelia, but to her newly manifested wolf.

“Who are you?” Eve asked, though she must have guessed it too.

“You can call me Serena,” she said.

“You are Amelia’s wolf,” I said.

“Yes.”

Eve straightened, and so did I. It wasn’t often that a person’s wolf could speak outwardly like this. Usually only the werewolf could speak to their wolf inside of their head.

“Amelia has been through a lot,” Serena said. “I have seen her past through her eyes and experienced her memories before they were sealed away.

“Did you seal them?” Eve asked.

Serena looked at Eve with her eerily glowing eyes but did not respond, leaving that question a mystery.

“There is danger stalking her,” Serena said.

“Yes,” I replied, stepping closer. For the examination, I had stepped away, but now, to talk to Serena, I wanted to be nearer. “And you could help.”

“She is too weak to shift,” Serena said. “I do not think she can even hear me calling her while she is awake.”

“How much can you do?” I asked.

Serena considered me. “What would you ask of me?”

“Alpha Damien will likely be coming here for what he believes is Amelia’s funeral. If he scents her, he will follow it to her,” I said. “You’ve seen her memories. You know what hurts Damien has caused in her life. For her sake, I’m begging you, please hide her true scent, to help keep her concealed from him and others who would harm her.”

Serena looked at me for a long moment, as if sizing me up. I continued staring back though made no effort to interfere in her assessment.

Finally, after a long moment, she said, “Very well. For Amelia, I will do this.”

“Thank you,” I said.

She closed her eyes and laid back on the pillow. I stepped back again and Eve continued her examination.

Then, after a while, Amelia woke up and looked at me, smiling. “Brother, is the exam done?”

She seemed to have no recollection of our conversation with her wolf.

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Chapter 201

Damien’s POV

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Ethan started providing the information I had requested right away. Yet, the hours ticked by, I was noticing a few discrepancies in what he was bringing me. Alpha Claude’s pack had agreed to help, and sent over all their investigatory folders. But some of the staff files were missing.

Particularly the ones about my own staff. And it seemed one of the sedans of our caravan never made it back.

That was a strange oversight that I couldn’t explain. Unsure, I called our contact in Alpha Claude’s pack myself and told him what was missing.

“That’s odd,” the contact said. “I’m certain I sent copies of those files to your Beta Ethan.”

“That is strange,” I said.

Ethan wasn’t careless. He’d never misplaced any documents ever since becoming my Beta, but I had to assume that was what happened here. The only alternative was that he was hiding information from me on purpose…

I didn’t want to think that about him. But maybe I had been too trusting of everyone around me up to this point. “Could you please forward those missing files directly to my email?” I asked the contact. “Without including my Beta on the CC.”

There was quiet on the line, but the man seemed to understand my suspicion. “Yes, of course.” I was relieved when he didn’t make me voice it out loud. I didn’t think I’d be able to give voice to this suspicion just yet.

After hanging up, I sat back in my chair and tried to think..

Ethan walked by the door. For a moment, I thought about calling him in and asking him questions. Instead, I let him go.

I had trusted him so implicitly for so long. Perhaps that was my mistake. Perhaps I made it too easy for the people closest to me to betray me.

If that was what happened here.

I wasn’t ready to throw all the blame onto him. Not yet. Not until I had proof.

But now that I had suspicions, I would be looking closer. I would be digging.

May the Goddess help him if I actually found evidence of his guilt.

No mercy was given to Amelia, and I’d give none to her killers.

Jake’s POV

At the hospital, I left Amelia in Eve’s care while I went to the nursery to check on Amy, my new niece. When I walked in, my mother Lillian was already holding her. I didn’t make my arrival overly quiet. At least, I was only quiet enough not to wake the babies.

Lillian glanced up at me and then looked back down at the child.

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